Last night I upgraded from WIUI2.5.7(stable) to the new WIUI2.6.8(stable). It went well, <strike>I did make the mistake to wipe cache instead of dalvik cache after flashing</strike>, but I did wipe the dalvik cache after that. Then I booted into the defy, downloaded Titanium Backup from the market and restored system settings. Then Titanium Backup suggested I rebooted, which I did. After that I cannot enter the bootloader and it's stuck flashing coloured squares, I guess that is the ICS bootanimation.
My guess is my Defy seems bricked, but isn't. What do I need to do to rescue it?
Fixed it myself, I kept removing the battery and fiddling with the buttons and all of a sudden I was in the bootloader and reinstalled the ROM. What I need to know is what caused the problem. Probably certain system settings could not be exported, perhaps all of them? I understand that you cannot import from gingerbread to ICS, but I thought this kernal was gingerbread. And can I import contacts, whatsup settings, SMS etc?
NM, I cannot get get this rom to work when importing settings en data, I'll just go back to 2.5.27. Thank you all for your help, I appreciate it.
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Hi i'm currently running MIUI 1.6.1 and i just finally got it completely setup exactly how i want it, took me like hours upon hours a day for a week getting all my apps and contacts and data set up along with themeing etc etc
I want to upgrade to the newer one that just came out today the 1.6.17 -- Do i have to do a FULL Factory reset/delvik cache and/ cache wipe?
or can i just wipe the delvik and cache and then flash overtop without losing everything?
Basically i dont want to have to go back in and re-fix my Sprint VVM and re-add Swype again as both those took me like 50 installs a piece to get working, along with like 50 apps i downloaded, and all my contacts, etc, etc do i have to do a full wipe and start from scratch again, or can i just flash and upgrade and keep all my stuff without doing a full factory reset and also without having a ton of errors and force closes?
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Hi i'm currently running MIUI 1.6.1 and i just finally got it completely setup exactly how i want it, took me like hours upon hours a day for a week getting all my apps and contacts and data set up along with themeing etc etc
I want to upgrade to the newer one that just came out today the 1.6.17 -- Do i have to do a FULL Factory reset/delvik cache and/ cache wipe?
or can i just wipe the delvik and cache and then flash overtop without losing everything?
Basically i dont want to have to go back in and re-fix my Sprint VVM and re-add Swype again as both those took me like 50 installs a piece to get working, along with like 50 apps i downloaded, and all my contacts, etc, etc do i have to do a full wipe and start from scratch again, or can i just flash and upgrade and keep all my stuff without doing a full factory reset and also without having a ton of errors and force closes?
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Doesn't Titanium Backup or Mybackup Pro work with MIUI?
pulazki said:
Hi i'm currently running MIUI 1.6.1 and i just finally got it completely setup exactly how i want it, took me like hours upon hours a day for a week getting all my apps and contacts and data set up along with themeing etc etc
I want to upgrade to the newer one that just came out today the 1.6.17 -- Do i have to do a FULL Factory reset/delvik cache and/ cache wipe?
or can i just wipe the delvik and cache and then flash overtop without losing everything?
Basically i dont want to have to go back in and re-fix my Sprint VVM and re-add Swype again as both those took me like 50 installs a piece to get working, along with like 50 apps i downloaded, and all my contacts, etc, etc do i have to do a full wipe and start from scratch again, or can i just flash and upgrade and keep all my stuff without doing a full factory reset and also without having a ton of errors and force closes?
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First backup using MIUI's built in backup. It had two parts: system and stuff, and apps. Back up all the apps. Then backup wifi and desktop at the very least. I don't backup contacts because then I get duplicates.
Reboot into recovery
Nand backup
Wipe just cache and dalvik cache.
Flash the update
Reboot.
Usually this is fine. But if you get fc's then you probably need to wipe clean everything and then restore via backup.
It's not.that bad. I've never had any problems re-installing swype and/or sprint voicemail. The only thing I usually have to redo is the theme.
Evo HW 003
MIUI 1.6.17
Cut Corners theme
I have been running MIUI for a couple of months now. Whenever I flash a new release (an update, in my situation) I just wipe cache & dalvik then flash. Once the rom has fully booted and settled, I'll reboot. I let it fully boot, then reboot into recovery (Amon 2.3) and "fix apk uid mismatches", then wipe cache and dalvik again, flash Tiamat since they started including the CM kernel instead, then reboot and I'm good to go. My theme sticks throughout and I haven't run into any problems doing it this way, other than broken themes from constant ui changes... which thankfully finally slowed down. Sometimes I'll skip on fixing permissions, it's more of a ritual than necessary.
Last week I decided it was probably time for a full wipe so I did. Between the MIUI Backup app & Titanium Backup Pro, setting back up took roughly 15-30 minutes (including flashing the rom and kernel). Just nandroid first to be safe, but I've always treated it as an update.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
Hi all, I changed the levels automatic brightness adjustments, then a call occurred and I aswered. When I closed the call, my defy+ rebooted immediately (no messages appeared) and then went in a bootloop: cyano glowing logo, then a single red LED flash, then it repeats.
Tried to clear dalvik cache, with no luck.
Is there a way to recover easily? Unfortunately I have no backups but want to keep contacts and application data. Not interested in keeping SMS's or photos.
Thank you
Contacts are usually stored with gmail account. I don't know about the app data though.
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tried to wipe cache, dalvik cache, then install latest CM10 but ended up with the very same problem.
Should I only go RSD?
manualle said:
tried to wipe cache, dalvik cache, then install latest CM10 but ended up with the very same problem.
Should I only go RSD?
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Make a backup of your /data in custom recovery, then wipe your /data partition (and cache/dalvik if you want), then reboot.
This will most likely get it to boot up again, then you can use Titanium Backup to restore your apps and app data. Do not restore your complete backup, because it most likely got corrupted, and do not restore System apps either.
You can restore SMS, by restoring Phone/Messaging Storage, and to restore Call Logs/Contacts, restore Contacts Storage. You might want to check the "Migrate System Data" checkbox in Preferences if it doesn't work at first.
Thank you, but I've already gone RSD. Good to know anyway. tnx
manualle said:
Thank you, but I've already gone RSD. Good to know anyway. tnx
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Sorry we couldn't find a solution in time.
For me, it's not that important; I full wipe at every sign of a bootloop. With the Desire I used to wipe all, including /system!
As long as you have a google account, you can reinstall the ROM and add your Google account at the beginning. That restores your previous setup of applications and appdata. Contacts are automatically synced and added to People.
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Sorry we couldn't find a solution in time.
For me, it's not that important; I full wipe at every sign of a bootloop. With the Desire I used to wipe all, including /system!
As long as you have a google account, you can reinstall the ROM and add your Google account at the beginning. That restores your previous setup of applications and appdata. Contacts are automatically synced and added to People.
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well, it's really not that bad.
Trying the latest CM with good results
thank you for the info! bye
Hello,
I'm trying to fix a problem for a few days now, but without any luck.
I flashed CM11 using CWM 6.0.4.7, which is the latest.
But for some reason there is a problem with the date & time. My whatsapp keeps telling me my date was wrong, while it was actually set right. Didn't matter if i changed it and changed it back, or put it on automatic. It keeps resetting at boot but for some reason it shows the right date.
So i tried flashing another rom and i have the same problem.
But then i found out i did a full wipe and to be sure i formatted System and Data (also cache and dalvik), but when i did a clean install after the wiping, i still could restore a whatsapp backup and i see all my photos which are located on my internal storage. (/storage/emulated/o).
I think the wiping isn't done right or something.
Does anybody know what i should do?
I just want to wipe everything possible, except for CWM and then do a clean install.
hi guys,
so i was trying to clear the phone's cache for some gallery cache problems... anyway long story short from the recovery menu of TWRP (the external one) i chose "wipe" by mistake and that included data+dalvik+cache and the phone reverted back to original settings which sucks.
Now i have a GOOD backup of EVERYTHING (which i did 1 week ago) with the same TWRP and i tried to restore that one right away - but when the phone restarts there's quite a few apps errors, gmail apps, etc etc... and it seems i dont have root anymore.
I previously restored that backup and it was perfect, - although i didnt wipe the data first - it was because installed exposed and the phone went in bootloop, restored backup, put up proper version and all was good.
Anyway what's the best way to have my backup to work properly in this situation? hopefully there's a simple way.
many thanks,
Gabrio
Seems i managed to find the "way out" - i restored yet again the same backup but before restarting phone after restoring, i did a "fix permission + wipe cache + wipe dalvik cache" - That seems to have worked! phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
that should be it right?????
Hello,
I flashed the latest img and vendor from Pure Nexus and i got a little problem, I cant see notifications though the vibration happens, and i can't draw the notifications menu either same about the quicktiles settings.
I also noticed that recent apps button doesn't do anything anymore, i rebooted in safe mode, still same issues, can you help me?
Sberdila said:
Hello,
I flashed the latest img and vendor from Pure Nexus and i got a little problem, I cant see notifications though the vibration happens, and i can't draw the notifications menu either same about the quicktiles settings.
I also noticed that recent apps button doesn't do anything anymore, i rebooted in safe mode, still same issues, can you help me?
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Sounds to me like you didn't wipe properly when flashing the ROM. You need to wipe system, data, cache, dalvik cache before flashing, is that what you did?
Usually when you update the same rom it's better to dirty flash no? i cant wipe all my data everytime i want to update the rom, though i might go back to stock, i
what's the best way to backup apps within the phone, and should i go deodex or Oden
Sberdila said:
Usually when you update the same rom it's better to dirty flash no? i cant wipe all my data everytime i want to update the rom, though i might go back to stock, i
what's the best way to backup apps within the phone, and should i go deodex or Oden
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My mistake, I didn't realise you were just updating the same ROM. Yes, usually you can just dirty flash, but the way something is implemented may have changed in the latest update, causing the issues you're having now. The solution is pretty simple though: backup your user apps with Titanium Backup, boot into TWRP and perform a full wipe (system, data, cache, dalvik cache), flash ROM + gapps, boot into ROM and set up your settings, restore your user apps with Titanium Backup.
Thanks a lot!
I had this same issue after the March security updates. Was given this and it fixed my issues completely! It manually runs the setup wizard. Not sure if it will fix it or not, but worth a shot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65767953&postcount=7